Combination of antistasis devices

• US 4,795,148 A
• Filed: 04/03/1987
• Issued: 01/03/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Avvari Rangaswamy
• Original Assignee: Avvari Rangaswamy
• Inventors: Rangaswamy, Avvari
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAHR, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US07/033,800
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 272/70, 272/96, 272/136, 272/138, 272/139, 128/25 B, 128/24, 128/24.1, 128/24.2
• US Class Current: 482/80
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0054 provided with magnets, magnetic parts or magnetic substances
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/085 by rotational movement of the joint in a plane substantially parallel to the body-symmetrical-plane

Abstract

An exercise device for the feet and legs, where the device has foot plates for exercising a supine person'"'"'s feet; calf squeezers for compressing the calf muscles when the feet are exercised; and a support structure holding the foot plates in a vertical position and the calf squeezers in a horizontal position.

Persons in a supine position exert a rocking movement of the foot plates and this rocking movement makes the calf muscles squeeze against the calf squeezer. This squeezing pumps blood out of the deep veins of the calf and prevents stasis of blood and clot formation in the deep veins of the calf.

Claims

1. An antistasis device for use in the supine position comprising:

(a) a horizontal panel and a vertical panel and a vertical panel attached to each other to form a frame apparatus;

(b) means for squeezing the user'"'"'s calf including resilient means conforming to the calf of the user and means for securing the calf of the user against the resilient means, said means for squeezing the user'"'"'s calf being removably attached to said horizontal panel; and

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(c) means for flexing the user'"'"'s foot including a base plate removably secured to said vertical panel, a metal tube secured to said base plate, and a foot folding plate, formed of a non-magnetic material, held in pivotable relationship about said tube.

2. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said means for squeezing the user'"'"'s calf comprises a rigid semicircular plastic frame, a semirigid foam attached to the inside of said plastic frame, covers attached to both sides of said plastic frame and means for securing said covers over the leg of a user.

3. The antistasis device of claim 2, wherein said covers are secured to one another by hook and loop fasteners.

4. The antistasis device of claim 2, wherein said covers are secured to one another by straps.

5. The antistasis device of claim 2, wherein said plastic foam has a smooth surface thereover.

6. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said foot holding plate is comprised of plastic having magnets at both ends thereof and said pivotable relationship is accomplished by elastics passing around the forward ends and rear ends of said base plate and said foot holding plate.

7. The antistasis device of claim 6, wherein said foot holding plate has longitudinal ridges thereon.

8. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said horizontal panel is attached to said vertical panel by hinges.

9. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said tube is hollow.

10. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said metal base plate is secured to said vertical panel by magnets in said vertical panel.

11. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said metal base plate is secured to said vertical panel by bolts.

12. The antistasis device of claim 1, wherein said means for squeezing the user'"'"'s calf is secured to said horizontal panel by bolts.

13. An antistasis device for use in the supine position comprising:

(a) a horizontal panel and a vertical panel and a vertical panel attached to each other to form a frame apparatus;

(b) means for squeezing the user'"'"'s calf including a pair of resilient means conforming to the calf of the user and means for securing a calf of the user against each of the resilient means, said means for squeezing the user'"'"'s calf being removably attached to said horizontal panel; and

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(c) means for flexing the user'"'"'s foot including a pair of base plates removably secured to said vertical panel, each base plate having a metal tube secured to said base plate, and a foot holding plate, formed of a non-magnetic material, held in pivotable relationship about said tube.